The Wiert Corner
– Last week there was a nice poke by Stefan Glienke around the Delphi nextgen compiler being used for the upcoming Intel x64 Linux support in Delphi (yes, no Arm there, hopefully somewhere in the future) at [Archive.is] Using Delphi nextgen compilers … https://xkcd.com/303/ It resulted into a nice thread of strengths and weaknesses of the classic and nextgen compilers. I’m emphasising a long term wish for the Win32 platform to have two compilers: a classic one and an LLVM nextgen one. Reasons include this: Various compiler architectures can emit code for the same end-platformm: ...